key_light

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Copyright 2019 Matej Čamaj <camaj at protonmail dot com>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# See https://upower.freedesktop.org/docs/KbdBacklight.html
function get_brightness {
    dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply\
        --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" \
        "/org/freedesktop/UPower/KbdBacklight" \
        "org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight.$1" \
        |  awk 'FNR==2{print $2}'
}

brightness=$(get_brightness "GetBrightness")
max_brightness=$(get_brightness "GetMaxBrightness")

if [ "$brightness" -eq "$max_brightness" ]; then
   new_brightness=0
else
   new_brightness=$((brightness + 1))
fi

dbus-send --system --type=method_call \
    --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" \
    "/org/freedesktop/UPower/KbdBacklight" \
    "org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight.SetBrightness" int32:$new_brightness